The calm and smiling power [of Segré's work] lies in the logical rigor with which he reads texts.

- Daniel Bensaïd,

Since the beginning of the War on Terror, Israel has become increasingly salient to imperial strategy and ever more aggressive in its policies toward the Palestinians. In this context, a key ideological weapon is the cynical accusation of "anti-Semitism." For historical reasons, this has been deployed most forcefully in France, and Alain Badiou and Eric Hazan caustically demolish the "anti-Semitism is everywhere" allegation, used to bludgeon opponents of the Israeli state and those who stand in solidarity with the banlieue youth. Ivan Segré undertakes a meticulous deconstruction of a rampant "reactionary philo-Semitism" that identifies Jewish interests with the "democratic West."
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The calm and smiling power [of Segré's work] lies in the logical rigor with which he reads texts.
Dissecting how facile accusations of "anti-Semitism"are used to stifle dissent

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ISBN
9781781681152
Publisert
2013-12-17
Utgiver
Vendor
Verso Books
Vekt
574 gr
Høyde
237 mm
Bredde
158 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
288

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Biographical note

Alain Badiou teaches Philosophy at the École normale supérieure and the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works, including Theory of the Subject, Being and Event, Manifesto for Philosophy, and Gilles Deleuze. His recent books include The Meaning of Sarkozy, Ethics, Metapolitics, Polemics, The Communist Hypothesis, Five Lessons on Wagner, and Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy.